Linux Contracts in Knutsford

Linux
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 28 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 -6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Linux 42 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 14.79% 4.55% 6.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.87% 23.53% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 7 3
10th Percentile £305 £495 £448
25th Percentile £317 £501 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £510 £565
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% -9.73% +14.14%
75th Percentile £406 £524 -
90th Percentile £520 £546 -
Cheshire median daily rate £359 £508 £519
% change year-on-year -29.26% -2.17% +5.33%

All Operating Systems
Knutsford

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Knutsford.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 69 34 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 24.30% 19.32% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 32 14
10th Percentile £309 £321 £351
25th Percentile £350 £421 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £504 £565
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% -10.84% +15.31%
75th Percentile £448 £547 £593
90th Percentile £516 £576 -
Cheshire median daily rate £370 £450 £438
% change year-on-year -17.78% +2.86% +2.94%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Knutsford

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Knutsford over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Knutsford

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (47.62%) JBoss
2 10 (23.81%) Apache
3 9 (21.43%) Tomcat
4 5 (11.90%) IIS
4 5 (11.90%) WebSphere
5 4 (9.52%) iPlanet
5 4 (9.52%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (59.52%) OpenShift
2 24 (57.14%) AWS
3 10 (23.81%) SaaS
4 8 (19.05%) IaaS
4 8 (19.05%) PaaS
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.14%) AWS KMS
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.76%) Serverless
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
1 4 (9.52%) Kerberos
1 4 (9.52%) SSL
2 2 (4.76%) DNS
2 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (40.48%) Relational Database
2 7 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 6 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (11.90%) Oracle Database
4 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 18 (42.86%) Git
3 16 (38.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (28.57%) JIRA
5 11 (26.19%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (26.19%) CA Release Automation
6 7 (16.67%) SonarQube
6 7 (16.67%) TeamCity
7 6 (14.29%) Gradle
7 6 (14.29%) JUnit
7 6 (14.29%) Maven
8 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (26.19%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
1 7 (16.67%) Developer
1 7 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Lead
3 5 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Java Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) DevOps Specialist
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Applications Support
6 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Applications Support Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Developer in Test
7 1 (2.38%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) Spring Boot
2 8 (19.05%) AngularJS
2 8 (19.05%) Node.js
2 8 (19.05%) OAuth
3 7 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (14.29%) LDAP
4 6 (14.29%) REST
4 6 (14.29%) SOAP
4 6 (14.29%) Spring
5 5 (11.90%) OpenID
5 5 (11.90%) SAML
5 5 (11.90%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (7.14%) .NET
6 3 (7.14%) RESTful
7 2 (4.76%) Kafka
7 2 (4.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Security Posture
2 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (61.90%) Windows
2 15 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (26.19%) Unix
4 5 (11.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) DevOps
2 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 15 (35.71%) Observability
3 13 (30.95%) Microservices
4 10 (23.81%) Containerisation
5 8 (19.05%) ETL
5 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (16.67%) Analytics
6 7 (16.67%) Change Management
6 7 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 7 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 7 (16.67%) Runbook
6 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (14.29%) Build Automation
7 6 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (14.29%) Migration
8 5 (11.90%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Python
2 14 (33.33%) Java
3 13 (30.95%) Shell Script
4 8 (19.05%) PHP
5 7 (16.67%) Perl
6 5 (11.90%) Groovy
7 4 (9.52%) Ruby
8 3 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 4 (9.52%) RHCE
3 3 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) CISSP
4 2 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.76%) MCSA
4 2 (4.76%) MCSE
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 19 (45.24%) Docker
2 13 (30.95%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.14%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 16 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 14 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 10 (23.81%) Kibana
4 8 (19.05%) Grafana
5 5 (11.90%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (9.52%) CA Wily
7 3 (7.14%) Terraform
7 3 (7.14%) Tivoli
8 2 (4.76%) Ansible
8 2 (4.76%) CASB
8 2 (4.76%) Nessus
Vendors
1 22 (52.38%) AppDynamics
2 20 (47.62%) Oracle
3 15 (35.71%) Splunk
4 11 (26.19%) Red Hat
5 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
6 8 (19.05%) Cloudera
7 6 (14.29%) IBM
8 5 (11.90%) Broadcom
9 2 (4.76%) CyberArk
9 2 (4.76%) Remedy
9 2 (4.76%) Tenable